Climbing Everest: The Complete Writings of George Mallory - Couverture souple

Mallory, George Leigh

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1908096349 ISBN 13 : 9781908096340

Editeur : Gibson Square Books Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

In Climbing Everest, George Mallory (18 June 1886 - 8/9 June 1924), possibly the first man to summit Everest, takes us with him on his climbs in Britain and the Alps, culminating in his three expeditions to Mount Everest - the last of which cost him his life (a few days after the final piece in this book). Mallory was one of the first climbers to explore the emotional meaning of climbing, discarding the Edwardian stiff upper lip in the face of adventure. All his writings on climbing - here collected for the first time - started out as letters to his wife Ruth. He turned them into finely-crafted pieces which can be read by climbers as well as arm-chair climbers. When questioned 'Why climb Everest' he crafted the gnomic climbing phrase 'Because it is there.' His body was dramatically found five years ago on Everest in 2007. One day, nonetheless, his lost camera may provide the answer to the question whether he was the first human to summit Everest.

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Biographie de l'auteur

George Leigh Mallory was born on 18 June 1886 in Mobberley, Cheshire, and died in June 1924 while attempting to reach the summit of Everest. He coined the most famous words in mountaineering when asked why he wanted to climb Everest, he replied: Because it is there. Mallory was a pioneering climber, one partner describing his moves as almost serpentine in their smoothness . He was the only member of all three Everest expeditions of the early 1920s. He acquired his passion for climbing as a schoolboy at Winchester. At Cambridge he befriended Lytton Strachey, Rupert Brooke, John Maynard Keynes and Duncan Grant of the Bloomsbury group, among others. Later he taught the poet Robert Graves at Charterhouse, Godalming. Mallory married his wife Ruth Turner in 1914, six days before Britain and Germany declared war. He served in the Royal Artillery as an officer during the battle of the Somme. Peter Gillman is an author and journalist who with his wife Leni wrote The Wildest Dream (2000), the prize-winning biography of George Leigh Mallory. He has written for a range of national newspapers, including the Sunday Times, The Times, Mail on Sunday, Daily Mail, Guardian, Independent and Independent on Sunday. He and his wife Leni live near Crystal Palace, London.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Gathered from disparate archive locations, Climbing Everest is the first ever collection of George Leigh Mallory's complete writings on climbing. In the book he takes us with him on his climbs in Britain and the Alps, culminating in his three attempts to be the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest. The last of the three cost him his life, a few days after he wrote the final piece included in the book. Mallory was one of the first climbers to explore the emotional meaning of climbing. In the first essay, The Mountaineer as Artist, Mallory elaborates on his celebrated response to the question, Why climb Everest? Because it is there. These are riveting tales of beauty, struggle and triumph in which Mallory moved on from the stiff upper lip of his predecessors in the Great Age of Exploration.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Gibson Square Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1908096349
• ISBN 13: 9781908096340
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 288